The value had risen! That was Mirai's first reaction.
At that moment, he could not say whether he was excited or nervous. What would happen if the value reached 100%?
As he faced the sky again and enjoyed the blue heavens and white clouds, Toon felt a stabbing pain in his left eye once more.
[System Charge: 91%] [System Charge: 97%] [System Charge: 99%]
The value was close to full. Mirai's heart brimmed with excitement. He felt that something was about to happen.
Yet after a long while, the value remained fixed at 99%.
"What's going on? Why won't it go up?" Mirai wondered in confusion.
The lower-left corner of his vision still displayed:
[System Charge: 99%]
Mirai's mind raced. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the hard object Bing Zi had misunderstood earlier—the mysterious red bloodstone.
Mirai raised the stone before his left eye.
"Wow!"
This time, a powerful pain surged through his left eye, and at the same time, he saw a familiar scene.
A beam of light shot from the Silver Eye and shone directly onto the red stone.
To Mirai's utter shock, the red stone actually began to disintegrate beneath the strange beam. Countless paths of light appeared across the mysterious stone's outer layer, especially over its crystal-like surface. These paths formed a grid across the crystal, making it seem as though it had been divided into countless little squares.
Then, those squares began vanishing one after another. Yet as each grid vanished, the corresponding part of the crystal disappeared as well!
Just like that, under Xiu Yin's extremely astonished gaze, the half-fist-sized crystal vanished completely from his hand along with the final square, as though it had never existed in this world.
"This is like